Carey Mulligan rails against movie censorship of bad women

Women are rarely allowed to be adulterous on screen, Carey Mulligan has said, revealing her frustration at scenes being cut out of films where her character had been “morally objectionable”.

The British actress said that women were as unfaithful as men in real life but were not “allowed to fail on screen”.

“Women are sort of censored and I’ve worked on jobs before where my character originally in the novel or in the original script has behaved in a way that’s sort of morally objectionable or unpleasant, and we’ve played those scenes on set, we’ve acted them, and when it’s come to the edit they’ve been cut out,” Mulligan, 32, said at Cannes.